Photographer Evgeny Kondakov, whose work is in the collection of the Moscow House of photography and other museums, is the author of the book “Russian Sexy Revolution”. This album-a study of sexual life in Russia of the 1990s consists of pictures that were once published in Stern, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match and other world magazines.

The Ministry of Culture will issue irretrievable film chambers in 2016 © Press Service of the Ministry of Culture of Russia In 2016, declared the year of Russian cinema, the Federal Fund for Social and Economic Support of Russian Cinematography (Film Fund) will receive a means of filming films from the Ministry of Culture on an irrevocable basis. This was at a meeting of the Union of Cinematographers on Wednesday, December 23, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said, RIA Novosti reports.

A mobile anti -war exhibition will be held in St. Petersburg © Aidar Bekchintaev Aidar Bekchintayev. Without the name ("Police under the cover read out the zebra of her rights, which are not much and much"). 2015 (fragment) On Sunday, December 27, in St. Petersburg, a mobile anti -war exhibition “Not Mir” will be held, at which the works of artists from Russia, Ukraine, Finland, Germany and Austria will be presented. According to the organizers, a group of Moscow and St.

Grebenshchikov and Zemfira opposed the "Law on SRO" © Boris Grebenshikov / Facebook Thirty Russian musicians, including Boris Grebenshchikov, Zemfira Ramazanov, Alexander Vasiliev, Konstantin Kinchev, Ilya Lagutenko, Andrei Makarevich and Yuri Shevchuk, signed an open letter against the adoption of the Law on SRO. The letter was published today, December 24, on Facebook by Boris Grebenshchikov. Colta.ru gives him completely.

The newspaper "Tverskaya, 13" closes © "Tverskaya, 13" The Moscow government decided to stop the activities of its official publication, the newspaper Tverskaya 13. The resolution, signed by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, was published on the official portal of the mayor and the Moscow government and enters into force on January 1. The reasons for the liquidation of the publication in the resolution are not mentioned.

The other day, Patriarch Kirill personally ordered Sergei Chapnin to dismiss the responsible editor of the “Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate” . At the same time, Chapnin left his other posts in the Patriarchate, where he worked for almost 15 years. The media connect this with the recent report by Sergey Chapnin in the Moscow Center of Carnegie.

The restoration of the Rhodes colossus was estimated at 250 million euros © The British Museum Marten van Hemskierk. Colossus Rhodes. OK. 1572 According to the project, presented by the International Group of Architects, the reconstruction of one of the Seven Wonders of the World - Kolossa of Rhodes - will cost 250 million euros. According to TASS with reference to The Times , the new statue will be 135 m high - five times more than the original.

Alice will celebrate Kinchev's birthday in Moscow On Saturday, December 26, a concert of the Alice rock band will be held at the Moscow Club of Yotaspace, whose leader Konstantin Kinchev will turn 57 years old. “The group decided not to celebrate this date in the stadium decorations that are familiar to her and the“ Army of Alice ”, but on the scene of Yotaspace ,” the club said in the club’s website.

Olya walked along the highway and met a drunken monster. The monster stopped and sang by the human voice of the Aria of Trubadur from the “Bremen musicians”, called Olya to marry, hit the ground - and turned into a brave traffic cop Petya Vasyutin. Petya does not drink, chases Olya in a flowering meadow with his wand at the ready and already even bought a ring. Now not free heart.

Marina Koroleva leaves Echo of Moscow © Vladimir Fridkes Journalist Marina Koroleva from January 1 will not work at the Echo of Moscow radio station. The last time she will be aired on Sunday, December 27, in the program "We speak Russian." “I'm leaving, quit. - She wrote today, December 24, on Facebook. - My attitude to the "echo" is invariable. I love. I appreciate its essence, which is the most of all of us and each separately. I will be very bored for people who work there.

Vsevolod Chaplin was fired Today, December 24, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church at a meeting in Moscow was released by the Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin from the post of head of the Synodal Department for the relationship between the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate (MP). It is reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the Synod. Chaplin himself refused to comment on information about his resignation.

Ernst Unknown returns to the "Manege" © Courtesy Felix Komarov / MVO "Manege" Ernst Unknown. Mask grotesque. 1992 On January 5, the exhibition “Unknown Ernst Unknown will open in the Central Exhibition Hall of Manege in Moscow. Return to the arena. From the collection of Felix Komarov ”, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the sculptor.

Red Square for the New Year will be closed for the public © karsten Groeneweg / Flickr On Red Square in Moscow on the night of January 1, it will be possible to get only on special invitations: there will be a shooting of the Blue Light. This was stated on the air of the Moscow 24 television channel, the head of the Department of Regional Security and Combating of Moscow Corruption Alexei Mayorov, TASS reports.